You know when you find that one little glitch in your lovely plans for an afternoon? That avoidable blip that just messes things up? At one time I probably would have launched into a story about lost reservations or spilled beverages; today, it’s washing machine vibration.
I must admit, of all the household chores that I complain about, I secretly love doing laundry. There’s something so methodical about the process, and it’s not so time consuming that you can’t get anything done mid-cycle. But then when you’d like to just forget everything else on your list, you’ve got a big basket of warm, clean-smelling laundry to fold.
Maybe it’s me-but that sounds downright calming to me. But, like I said before, one little hitch in the problem: washing machine vibration. If my washing machine is feeling especially active one laundry-filled Saturday afternoon, the entire event might be ruined.
It’s a testament to how much technology has infiltrated my life-but on more than one occasion I’ve gone to mute the washer, only to find myself cursing at the rattling machine, knowing full well no one could hear me over the racket.
You can also see how washing machine vibration and noise could start to interfere with my light sleeping little one come naptime.
I’m all for the gentle hum of the dishwasher or the soft boom of the dryer, but with the washing machine, vibrations and shaking lose that white noise feeling. On top of all of that, having a sensitive sleeper and a noisy washing machine have really gotten in the way of my laundry habit! Now I have to find little chunks of time around my day when I can sneak some laundry in, if you can believe it.
“So why is she telling us about all this if she hasn’t found a solution?!” you might ask. Well, I did find a solution. I propped the machine up with rugs and towels in different folded formations, even jammed my lightly used yoga mat underneath to see if that would calm the beast.
All of these “solutions” were shaky, at best, and also downright “shaky” – I was worried that the machine might tip or shift on such unstable support. And, as you know, this isn’t acceptable when you’ve got someone shorter than the machine strolling around your house.
And so, my friends, I finally found a set of silent feet – little rubber shoes that are completely stable and somehow manage to absorb all that sound and movement into their little rubber soles. I’m not sure how it works, but that’s something I can ponder over laundry… Which I can now do whenever I want!
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